2017-2018 Seminar Schedule
The UCR Political Economy Seminar provides a venue for graduate students and faculty from UCR and elsewhere to engage actively in interdisciplinary and state of the art research in political economy.
For more information, or if you would like to present your work at the seminar, please contact the organizers, Jana Grittersova (jana.grittersova@ucr.edu) and Matthew C Mahutga (matthew.mahutga@ucr.edu).
The Political Economy seminar meets from 3:30 PM–5:00 PM in HUMANITIES 1500, unless otherwise noted.
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| Thursday, October 26th | David A. Steinberg, Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University “The Mass Political Economy of Capital Controls” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Friday, February 2nd | In Song Kim, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Democracy and Industry-varying Liberalization: Evidence from a New Tariff-line Dataset” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, February 15th | Arthur S. Alderson, Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor of Sociology, Indiana University “Urban Development and the World City System: Inter-City Relations and the Fate of U.S. Cities” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, March 1st | Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst “Producing Inequalities: An examination of the workplace generation of earnings inequalities in eleven high income countries” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty and UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, May 3rd 3:10-5:00pm Humanities 1500 |
David H. Bearce, Professor of Political Science / International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder “Why does the Mass Public Not Believe in Free Trade?” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, May 10th 3:10-5:00pm Humanities 1500 |
Hye Young You, Assistant Professor, the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University “Legislative Capture? Career Concerns,Revolving Doors, and Policy Biases” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, May 31st 3:10-5:00pm Humanities 1500 |
Marion Fourcade, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley “The Type and the Grade: On the Institutional Scaffolding of the Judgment of Taste” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |